Stephen R., List: Semeiotic is a *science*, not a substance; saying that it "is not a branch of anything" is like saying that quantum mechanics is not a branch of physics. If what you meant is that *semeiosis *is not a branch of anything, then I agree; I believe that it is the most fundamental aspect of Reality, which is why Semeiotic (the study of Signs) is a prerequisite for Metaphysics (the study of Reality) in Peirce's classification of the sciences. As I have quoted him often lately, "Metaphysics consists in the results of the absolute acceptance of logical [i.e., semeiotic] principles not merely as regulatively valid, but as truths of being" (CP 1.487; c. 1896).
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:13 PM Stephen Curtiss Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Semiotics is not a branch of anything. It is the real substance that are > signs. They have substance as does the universe. To discuss semiotics as a > subset of anything else is like discussing air as a subset of a breath or > water as what I am drinking rather than water in all of its substance. > Merely because sins cannot be seen is no argument against their substance. > We cannot see most of the things that have been proved to be the > foundations of matter. When I read Peirce I assume he was way ahead of all > of us but that he was also a creature of his time and had capacities all of > us know from ourselves were limited by earth time. Could he speak now he > would probably disabuse us all because he would know things that both > confirm his inklings and thrusts and things that he did not know. > > amazon.com/author/stephenrose >
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